a million dollar heist, at a vegas 1 pitch, back -- >> well, panda is uncaged in game 1 of the world series. >> a million dollar heist at a vegas casino, but there's a catch. >> and believe it or not, this is the hot new spa treatment. what a way to start the word series! the panda meets the

tigers, and fires off three he's homered again! [ cheering and applause ] >> another! pablo sandoval! >> what a way to start the world series! the panda meets the tigers and fires you have 3 home runs in game 1! on the achievement that ties a world series record, dennis? >> hello, dana. every night it's a different story with this team. tonight, it's just not explainable. sandoval joins babe ruth, and two others as the only to hit 3 home runs in a world series game. sandoval put it over, and the giants had the early lead. lost in the madness of barry zito who allowed 1 run in 5 and 2/3. the game change when angel pagan's ground-ball

bounces off the bag at 3rd base with 2 out, it extended the inning. but the sandoval show was just starting. verlander would be victimized again, this time to the opposite field, and this made it 4-0. and sandoval still wasn't done! he golfs out this curve ball, just the third in the history of this ball park, and he used a different bat for the third home run. >> i think in your third at-bat, you broke your bat. was that the same one you had used for the first two home runs? >> yeah, man, i used it all my postseason. i don't get two minutesa the station with the -- minutes at the station with the bat. it breaks, and it's another bat, you know, other things you got inside you use. if you have faith, you have to believe in yourself. >> where is the bat now? ahead to game two tomorrow

night.. >> reporter: tim lincecum brilliant out of the bullpen, 2 and 1/3 scoreless innings with 5 strikeouts. more highlights coming up later on. >> very exciting. obviously the giants were looking for a strong start to the world series, and they got it tonight! linda is outside with some fans. >> reporter: it was a lot of fun here tonight! it was a party all night, the giants delivered, and the fans were delirious! >> [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: game 1? giants n. [ cheering and applause ] >> giants got this boxed up! i'd be surprised if it goes to five games! >> reporter: fireworks and a fly-over started the party. and the fans came in their finest orange and black from homemade masks to tripped-out bikes?

to the indescribable. >> i went to get the best suit i thought would represent the giants! >> did you find it off the rack? >> i found it off the rack, and it was for sale! >> reporter: there were a lot of things for sale. and it wasn't hard to spot the scalpers. >> i got to check the market first. >> reporter: what's the market? >> whatever it is spending. >> reporter: there are other ways to see the game without a ticket. over here, these are the not cheap seats! these are the free seats! 125 fans just standing here, and every three inning, they change them out! matt hutchins drove up from merced yesterday to get in line. >> i waited around in san francisco since about 12:45 last night, sleeping in my car. >> reporter: some find more creative ways to see the action on the field.

>> [ [ cheering and applause ] [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: and giants home runs are just as fun for fans outside the park. even fans without tickets were out here all night dressed in black and orange because they just wanted to soak in the atmosphere! >> got to love it! first two games in san francisco, and wee looking good. thank -- we're looking good. and richard murdock is getting a bipartisan blasting tonight for comments opposing abortion for rape victims. >> even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, then it is something that god intended to happen. >> president obama said the comments don't make any sense. john mccain has pulled his endorsement for now. but murdock refuses to apologize. grace lee explains that puts his

most high-profile supporter in an awkward position. >> reporter: as mitt romney jets among swing states in the final days before the election, he's also taking a step away from a senate candidate mired in controversy. >> this is that issue that every credit -- >> reporter: richard murdock is running for senate in indiana, and people are focused on his comment about rape and abortion. >> i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happen. >> reporter: hours later, murdock was apologizing but that his comments were misunderstood. >> i don't think god wants rape. i don't think he wants that at all. because rape is evil. i abhor evil. >> reporter: it is an awkward position fiduciary romney, he -- he endorsed murdock in august. >> i'm something richard murdock for senate. >> reporter: and he endorsed

him in this ad airing this week. >> it's really bad timing for romney and the election. people are viewing it through their own lens. they got to make this close. anything like this matters. >> reporter: it has sparked a frenz frenzs of new ads -- frenzy of new ads. >> we got to get this guy elected! >> reporter: a romney spokeswoman says that mitt romney disagrees with mr. murdock and his comments do not reflect his views. "we disagree on the policy regarding the exceptions for rape and insteft but still support -- incest but still support him." the republican chair says it is the right move by romney to stand by murdock but not for this issue. >> i think it's absolutely fine for him to disagree with the candidate he endorses on one issue, and i'm the chairman of the republican party, and i don't agree with candidates who we endorse on every issue. >> reporter: president obama's

campaign said "murdock's statements are outrageous and demeaning to women." and they said it was a reminder of the gop's views on women's health. both campaigns have issue the statements byou not the -- issued statement, but not the candidates. both want to keep a distance from murdock. some polls indicate that governor brown's prop 30 tax plan is barely hanging on. so he is asking voters to make a choice: approval a temporary tax hike or accept deep cuts. >> what i can tell you is our options are very few, if any. >> reporter: what would the triggers mean? the biggest hit will be to k-12 education which is expected to take about a $5 billion hit. that's roughly equivalent to three weeks worth of school funding. community colleges would stand to lose about $550 million.

>> we're going to have to start cutting classes. word >> reporter: cal state plans to raise tuition by 5% if it doesn't pass. and cutting enrollment by about 20,000 students statewide, and lay off 1,500 teachers and support staff. it also means cuts of about 17 million to san francisco state, 16 million to san jose state. >> the trigger cuts are really blackmail, frankly. they're put in there designed to force taxpayers to approve this measure. and i don't appreciate being blackmailed. >> reporter: and one of the questions voters ask is will lawmakers really go through with such unpopular cuts or scramble to find money elsewhere? what are the chances of reversing course? >> i can't speculate. but our options are

few if any. >> reporter: why not wait until after the voters have their say? >> to have the balanced budget this year, we would have had to make the cut we're talking about now in june. >> reporter: why not do it? >> it would have been politically more difficult, and also causing unnecessary pain because voters we still hope will pass prop 30. >> reporter: the latest poll shows that the measure is just barely hanging in there and could swing one way or the other depending on how the undecideds feel in the next coming week. it may be one choice they don't want to make but one the governor says they have to. roads in parts of silicon valley are so congested that they often represent los angeles. a triangle of gridlock in mountain view boarded lie highway 101, amphitheater parkway, and north shoreline. len ramirez on the idea to prevent roads from turning into

parking lots. >> i don't even take the freeway anymore. it's so bad. >> mostly on the way to work, there's a lot of bad traffic. >> it's pretty ugly. stop and go. >> it's a hell of a lot more stop than go. >> reporter: they're talking about getting to mountain view's north shoreline area. with only two roads into the area, now stacking up is one of the worst commutes in silicon valley. and laura messia says it could be getting worse. >> we could expect as many as 30,000 more people that have not been approved. so we need to plan for it carefully. >> reporter: his building was just sold to a high-tech company, and he'll be moving out. the new wave of projects

has residents looking at a range of options, more shuttle buses, park and ride lots, and people-movers. building high-density worker housing is off the table due to the impact on wildlife. >> the pressures on wildlife would be so severe that you could kiss some of those species goodbye. >> reporter: for now, people are coming up with their open plans. >> i've given up on trying to fight the whole traffic thing. and i'm depending solely on my bike. >> reporter: about 39% of the commuters into this area already use some social of alternative transportation. that means that whatever solutions come out in the future will have to be more creative and more enticing to get the remainder on board. the first meeting of the banned book club, the tony award-winning play that students are not allowed to read in one

classroom. >> a heist in a vegas casino caught on camera.

,,,, provocative for the classro. so now, a bay area teacher s turning to a higher power. cbs 5 reporter joe vazquez s at the first meeting of the "banned book club." nats it's a powerful pulitzr prize-winning play, but stus

there are some deep-rooted and unspoken homophobia in this board. >> reporter: every year since 2008, the board has banned the play along with another book dealing with incest. >> many of the board members did not want their own children exposed to it. so they are projecting their own small-minded concerns onto the children of everyone. >> reporter: board member laura york disagreed. >> the majority of the board decided that the material in the book and the play were too mature for our 17 and 18 year-olds. >> reporter: because they're still available in the library, the district insists are not banned. >> it is banned. it's banned if they

do not allow the reasonable teaching of others in the classroom setting. >> reporter: the universalist church has now hired the teacher to teach the books in a series of monthly evening classes starting tonight. no students were present. but this book club hopes they'll eventually show up to learn material the school district has decide side too controversial. las vegas police are searching for a california man accused of taking more than 1-1/2 million dollars of chips from a casino. authorities say the suspect faces some long odds. >> reporter: these surveillance pictures allegedly show the thief as he walked through the venetian and snuck into a closed-off area reserved for high-rollers. >> he managed to pry open the lock on the chip container. >> reporter: he vanished with

his $1.6 million hall because at that early hour, no one was using the room. the suspect is 31-year-old cole who has a mohawk and a tattoo on his left ear. >> he's been looking for work for months and hasn't been successful. >> even though people get away with this stuff initially, it's difficult to take it through to conclusion. >> reporter: it's the most recent in attempts to chip away at house money. michael belton was one who pepper sprayed a man at the bellagio and get away with $200,000 in chips. and in 2010, anthony carleo ran off with $1.5 million.

>> reporter: the catch here is that authorities say in these cases, the thieves likely can't even cash in. the chips can only be redeemed at the casino from where they were stolen. anywhere else they're worthless. >> it's one of the dumbest crimes you can possibly make. >> reporter: once again, the house always wins. weather time! and i want to start by looking all the way out to a different part of the country on a different night! we're talking sunday night, game 4. the forecast for detroit, game time temperature coming up will likely be only in the upper 30s. they're calling for the low to mid-40s. showers in sonoma. showers off the coastline of marin, and some showers moving right through downtown san francisco. they're moving slowly through the east.

it has been plenty of snow showers in the mountains. if you want to go skiing as soon as thursday, squaw valley is opening up. and we've seen very impressive snowfall totals. 2 feet of snow, if not more, in alpine meadow, sugar bowl, squaw valley, and 2.5 feet of new snow at boreal. lows tonight in the 40s for you in napa. high pressure is building in, and we'll get a touch of summer once again. high pressure building off to our south right now. not that much warmer. we're going to have some fveng weekend weather with some -- fantastic weekend weather with some of you getting into the 80s. the weekend looks very nice with mainly sunny skies.

highs tomorrow, we return to the 70s in san jose. . 70 for walnut creek, napa 69, and upper 60s for petaluma. and the extended forecast calls for dry weather through the weekend. coming up, some proof that beauty really does hurt. why some people are paying to get slapped!

beauty tricks, but this maye the most unusual: pay someone, to slap you around! really. cbs 5 reporter ann notarange you pay somebody to slap you around! >> you got a few wrinkles? you need a good beating! a brave intern checks out the bay area's newest spa. >> reporter: another massage parlor in san francisco. >> the first reaction is, what? face-slapping? >> reporter: ty are also happy to advertise their license

by the state of california to slap you. >> to really understand this technique, you have to have firsthand experience. so we brought in our intern, alley. >> reporter: what is it? >> it's from ancient thai wisdom. and it's a secret technique. >> reporter: they have been face-slapping for two years. and we handed alley right over. >> circulation and part of it. but it's i would say optimizing the fat and tissues and muscles that are in the face. >> reporter: it costs $350 for each session. they do have the face at a time, and the results they say last six months. >> there was no stinging at all. i felt a really strong pressure, and other times it was quite gentle. >> reporter: they lifted her left eyebrow, slammed her left

cheek, and reduced the lines around her mouth. this is her before and after. the giants are victorious in game 1 of the world series!

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verlander was done after 4 innings. prince fielder, 2nd base, zito gets his first career world series win. bottom of the 5th, different pitcher, same result for pablo. he becomes the fourth player in world series history to hit 3 home runs in game 1. >> for me, don't thinking too much. >> i've never played with anybody who can hit the ball like he can with the authority that he can. i don't think there's many who have played who can hit the ball as he does when it's not a strike. >> tomorrow, madison bumgarner takes the hill for san francisco. >> who's the guy that pitched for the tigers tonight? >> some guy named justin ver,

ver, ver. >> what did i say last night? [ laughter ] >> i said he's going down! ,,,,

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